New Times (album)

New Times
Studio album by
ReleasedMay 17, 1994 (1994-05-17)
StudioDV's Perversion Room, Milwaukee, WI
GenreRock
Length50:20
LabelElektra
ProducerBrian Ritchie, Gordon Gano
Violent Femmes chronology
Add It Up (1981-1993)
(1993)
New Times
(1994)
Rock!!!!!
(1995)
Singles from New Times
  1. "Machine"
    Released: 1994
  2. "Breakin' Up"
    Released: 1994
Professional ratings
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Allmusic
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
Entertainment WeeklyA−
The Rolling Stone Album Guide

New Times is the sixth studio album by Violent Femmes, released in 1994, and the first not to feature original drummer Victor DeLorenzo on drums, who'd been replaced by Guy Hoffman. "Breakin' Up," a song lead singer Gordon Gano had written years before, was the lead single. Its video received minor airplay on MTV and appears on the band's DVD, Permanent Record - Live & Otherwise. The album did not sell well, but featured many of the Femmes' most musically complex and lyrically inventive songs, including "4 Seasons," and concert staple "I'm Nothing," which appeared in the movie Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas.